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Is goodness natural? How people are like plants

24 mins | Dec 7, 2017

For Philippa Foot, humans are part of nature: a person can be good, just as a tree can have good roots. Nakul Krishna, writing in Aeon magazine, looks at her battle to restore moral philosophy by proposing that people are like plants.

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